滋

滋	U+6ECB, 滋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ECB

← 滊
[U+6ECA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

滌 →
[U+6ECC]

滋	U+FA99, 滋 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA99

← 滛
[U+FA98]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

漢 →
[U+FA9A]

滋	U+2F90B, 滋 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F90B

← 㴳
[U+2F90A]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

滇 →
[U+2F90C]

Translingual

Han character

U+6ECB 滋 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿女戈 (ETVI), four-corner 3813₂, composition ⿰氵兹)
U+FA99 滋 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水卜戈戈 (EYII), composition ⿰氵玆)

Derived characters

𬵱 (Contains ⿰氵玆 (U+FA99))

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 642, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17919
Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1686, character 6
Unihan data for U+6ECB

Unihan data for U+FA99

Unihan data for U+2F90B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		滋
alternative forms		𣳯𤂇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	ʔsɯ, zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	ʔsɯ, zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	ʔsɯ, zɯ
稵	ʔsɯ, ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsɯ): semantic 水 + phonetic 茲 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄗ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chir / chu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zī
  - Zhuyin: ㄗ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zih
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹
  - Yale: dz̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
  - Palladius: цзы (czy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zi¹
  - Yale: jī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chir
  - Tâi-lô: tsir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
  - Tâi-lô: tsu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zw
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsi

Rime
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子之切
Baxter	tsi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡siə/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡si/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ə/

(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ə/
English	abundant
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
No.	17836
Phonetic component	兹
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	兹
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯ/

Definitions

滋

to grow; to multiply
to cause
to increase
taste
(colloquial) to spurt

Compounds

不是滋味 (bùshì zīwèi)
個中滋味 / 个中滋味
愛滋病 / 爱滋病 (àizībìng)
日滋月益
日益月滋
暴力滋擾 / 暴力滋扰
松滋 (Sōngzī)
樂滋滋 / 乐滋滋 (lèzīzī)
樹德務滋 / 树德务滋
殊滋異味 / 殊滋异味
滋事 (zīshì)
滋味 (zīwèi)
滋味兒 / 滋味儿 (zīwèir)
滋擾 / 滋扰 (zīrǎo)
滋潤 / 滋润 (zīrùn)
滋生 (zīshēng)
滋育
滋芽
滋蔓 (zīmàn)
滋蔓難圖 / 滋蔓难图
滋補 / 滋补 (zībǔ)
滋長 / 滋长 (zīzhǎng)
滋養 / 滋养 (zīyǎng)
滋養品 / 滋养品
甘露滋心
聚眾滋事 / 聚众滋事
華爾滋 / 华尔滋
蕃滋
飛滋 / 飞滋

Japanese

Kanji

滋

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

nourishment

Readings

Go-on: し (shi)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kan’yō-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
Kun: しげる (shigeru, 滋る)、ます (masu, 滋す)、ますます (masumasu)

Korean

Hanja

滋 (eumhun 불을 자 (bureul ja))

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Compounds

재미 (滋味, jaemi, “fun,enjoyment”)

Vietnamese

Han character

滋: Hán Nôm readings: tư

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